JULY 2006 • VOLUME 11 • ©HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine

"The ancient Egyptians didn't write with words and letters, instead they wrote with pictures. Each picture meant something and the pictures together told a story. And that is what we hope to do here today. To write a story using no words, no sentences, only pictures.

This is a happy story, a story of horse and rider challenging each other to a new level. Jumping from a historical perspective is a relatively new sport, which sometimes few realize. Jumping is the modern day version of the airs above the ground, the airs above the ground are the previous version of jumping. Actually the airs above the ground where at one time, called just that jumping. The riders who rode the airs above the ground were the "jumpers", in those days before we began jumping with our horses. See if you can see within each jump the elements of ballotade, croupade, capriole, levade, courbette, each is there. A natural element that is there to find within each of our horses."

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